Various good words and thoughts.
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‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.
‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’
— The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Rich is loud. Wealth is silent.
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£1,000 is not a lot of money to have, but it is a lot of money to need.
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Don’t confuse being needed with being valued.
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“I once took a dump half way up Mount Everest that was so perfectly formed I decided to take it home with me. And that turd grew up to be Piers Morgan”.
— Brian Blessed
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Sometimes, a man on the right track gets hit by a train on the wrong one.
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“But the Almighty determines what is right!” “Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality—which answers only to my heart—is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
— The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson
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‘No, shut up. I don’t want you to agree with me, I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.
— Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2), Joe Abercrombie
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‘You have more chance of giving birth to a live hippopotamus,’ said Requin, ‘than the best thief alive has of making it past the cordon drawn around my vault. But this is silly - we could sit here all night contrasting cock-lengths. I say mine is five feet long, you say yours is six and shoots fire upon command. Let’s hurry back to significant conversation.
— Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2), Joe Abercrombie
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Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.
— The Shining, Stephen King
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The fool strikes, she had said. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
— Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1), Joe Abercrombie
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‘Death waits for us all,’ said Nothing. ‘But she takes the lazy first.’
— Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1), Joe Abercrombie
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‘Keep your lies as carefully as your winter grain, my old teacher used to tell me.
— Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2), Joe Abercrombie
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‘Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you.’ He took a long breath, and let it sigh away. ‘Or you can let it go.
— Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2), Joe Abercrombie
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‘Death waits for us all. Nothing’s forever. Life’s about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who’s not content with what he’s got, well, more than likely he won’t be content with what he hasn’t.’
— Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3), Joe Abercrombie
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No matter how great and glorious the making, time will unmake it. No matter how strong the word, strong the thought, strong the law, all must return to chaos.
— Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3), Joe Abercrombie
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“I was once told a story by Pliny, my tutor—a ghastly fellow, really. And a Politico now, so take this all with a shipload of salt. Anyway: On Earth, there was a man and his camel.” I laugh. She keeps going. “They were traveling across this grand desert full of all sorts of nasties. One day, as the man prepared camp, the camel kicked him for no reason. So the man whipped the camel. The camel’s wounds grew infected. It died and left the man stranded.” “Hands. Camels. You and metaphors …” She shrugs. “Without your army, you’re a man stranded in a desert. So tread carefully, Reaper.”
— Red Rising, Pierce Brown
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The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.
— Red Rising, Pierce Brown
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“We all have our own tides inside. They go in. Out.” He shrugs. “Not really ours to control”.
— Golden Son, Pierce Brown
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Wisdom precludes boldness.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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Isn’t that the way of the world? … We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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Your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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I learned the sordid inner workings of the royal court in Modeg from a…courtesan. As my father used to say: “Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind’s way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying “time heals all wounds” is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.
— The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
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It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
— The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss